That is the standard fallacy when people predict the future. It'll be just like now, but better. Cars will fly. Housemaids will be robots. Computers will talk,

That is the standard fallacy when people predict the future. It'll be just like now, but better. Cars will fly. Housemaids will be robots. Computers will talk, but still take up entire rooms. But the future isn't just more or better. It's also different. That's much harder to predict and grasp.